Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: March 14, 2026, 05:33:26 am »https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDEY6pgDDPw
Woke comments:
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This is why I keep saying "New China" is the anti-China.
Woke comments:
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This… this feels racist.
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this IS RACIST
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I'm the least offendable, last person to say "cultural appropriation"... and yet just two minutes into the video I'm pretty shocked and offended. Really, tiktok? Really??
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People really have no shame anymore.
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It actually makes me sick with the lack of empathy these people have when partaking in trends like this.
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Like wtf is 'I'm diagnosed as CHINESE' or 'Hey guys I'm feeling CHINESE today because this trend is soooo cool and not racist'. The moment I saw the word 'diagnosed' I felt like punching those influencers.
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Plus the way people are explaining Chinese Culture, as if THEY are from it. Feels akin to mansplaining but with race lmfao.
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These are the same people who made fun of Asian kids for bringing "stinky food" to the school cafeteria
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From one POC to another, thanks for speaking up for us. Truly means a lot.
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The first couple of times I was excited to see Chinese creators showing us how to make the tea their mothers make to help their immune sustems...and then it just got worse and worse and whiter and whiter.
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Sounds like what happened with dance trends by Black creators and then popularized by White creators who often performed the dances worse than the original
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The problem is these things ALWAYS very quickly get alienated from their source/creator and end up in the control of those sitting at the top of the racial hierarchy, whyte people.
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As an Arab (Syrian), I'm not surprised that some white folks took another culture as a silly, shallow trend. At this point, I don't want them to understand and respect us
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As a black American…I understand and just wish my people would have gate kept more of our culture. They will only take it, rename it, claim it, then call you names when you call it out.
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Edward Said introduced the idea of Orientalism. It is the idea that much of Western depictions of Asian cultures and societies are overly simplistic, stereotypical, and offensive. The concepts of Orientalism were passed down from European imperialism.
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"I'm at a very Chinese time in my life" = "I'm at a very Orientalist time in my life"
"Diagnosed as Chinese" = "Diagnosed as racist"
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I have watched many whyte & Asian creators' vids on the subject, and the way whyte people minimize it as the latest "trend", while some Asians are just happy & homoured to finally be "trendy" enough for whyte's "appreciation" (again) could not sum up the history & pathetic dynamic
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I have seen the CGTN and South China Morning Post encourage this
This is why I keep saying "New China" is the anti-China.
